No media coverage for "Martyr" Thomas

Thursday, October 11, 2007

From scanning Google news and watching local television in Cleveland last night, United Church of Christ President John "Martyr" Thomas didn't receive a single bit of news coverage for his arrest outside the White House yesterday.

The Rationale

"If you believe love should be uncritical, you
may soon be thinking that I do not love this church. But my experience has been
that to be a member of the United Church of Christ is, almost by definition, to
be a critic of it. To be uncritical is to be the real oddball in this church.
Perhaps to be uncritical is to be un-Christian".

-From The United Church of Christ
Tomorrow, THEOLOGY AND IDENTITY: TRADITIONS, MOVEMENTS, AND POLITY IN THE
UCC (Pilgrim Press: 1990), edited by Dan Johnson